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Various Artists, Grease soundtrack, 52 weeks

Released: April 14, 1978

First reached No. 1: Nov. 2, 1996

Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 for 12 weeks (beginning July 29, 1978)

Notes: This is the soundtrack with the longest run at No. 1. This is also the only album to log 10 or more weeks at No. 1 on both Catalog Albums and the Billboard 200. This album spawned four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 — the Olivia Newton-John/John Travolta collabs “You’re the One That I Want” and “Summer Nights,” Newton-John’s solo smash “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and Frankie Valli’s “Grease.”

This is the only album on this list that received a Grammy nomination for album of the year. (Feel free to inject here, “You mean to tell me [blank] wasn’t nominated for album of the year?” Nope, it wasn’t.) Newton-John received a second nod for best pop vocal performance, female, for “Hopelessly…”

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MEMORABILIA

Could YOU make a MINT from the MOVIES?

Film memorabilia like Olivia Newton-John’s Grease outfit is fetching record sums, so ....

Irish Daily Mail
26 Aug 2019
By Sylvia Morris

THE famous skin-tight leather outfit worn by Olivia Newton-John in the 1978 musical Grease is currently on display in Museum of Style Icons in Newbridge, Co. Kildare, after a visit from the woman who made those pants famous.

The exhibition is being staged at the museum in Newbridge Silverware until this Saturday, and when Newton-John arrived in Ireland in July, she explained her reasons for selling the outfit after keeping Sandy’s biker rig in her wardrobe at home for the past 40 years.

The trousers, which are actually 1950s vintage, were skin-tight even when she played lissom Sandy at the age of 29. At the start of the day’s filming, she was stitched into them because the zip had broken – and unstitched every time she needed to use the toilet. When she tried them on a couple of years back she still managed to shoe-horn herself into them. ‘Although I had lost quite a bit of weight at the time because it was just after I’d got ill,’ she said.

She decided the time had come to auction them (along with other film memorabilia) for the benefit of her hospital when the film celebrated its 40th birthday last year.

‘I hope to raise a million dollars,’ she said. ‘It won’t be a wrench to part with them because they were never really mine. They were Sandy’s.’

The trousers will then head back to the States where they will be auctioned off in November, and as a single item they are expected to raise around €200,000.....

Danke Kay


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The buyer of Olivia Newton-John's Dalwood estate on the NSW north coast has been revealed https://t.co/0bxH2fVHRH #realestateau #NSW

— Realestate News (@NEWSProperty) 27 août 2019

Olivia Newton-John a obtenu 4,6 millions de dollars pour son domaine de Dalwood, sur la côte nord de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud.

L'acheteuse est Carol Klinkert, épouse de l'homme d'affaires Stephen, qui compte 30 années d'expérience dans le secteur des assurances en Afrique du Sud, au Royaume-Uni et en Australie.
Olivia Newton-John a tout d'abord acheté la propriété en 1981 pour 622 000 $. Des terrains adjacents ont été ajoutés en 1983 et plus en 2015 pour consolider la propriété de 55 ha.

Olivia Newton-John, basée en Floride avec son mari John Easterling, conserve sa participation dans le Spa Gaia Retreat, près de Byron,co-fondée en 2005.